Here is the second front cover of a thesis I made. 
(see also 'front of a dutch thesis (1)')
The title is:'On the connectedness of inside and 
outside, or how a balloon and a basket reflect on 
the surface'

This is the thesis of a biomedical engineer working
also in cardiology. This was more or less the 
technical counterpart of the clinical study.
Defence of this theses was two weeks after the other.
It was somewhat stressy in that period :)

This one is more complicated and more symbolic. 
The glass object floating is a Klein bottle.
Klein bottles have the property that they do
not have an inside and outside surface; it is
just one surface. In the research project we 
studied both the potentials on the inside surface 
of the heart wall and the potentials at the body 
surface. The Klein bottle was symbolic for the 
connectedness of both surfaces.
To make it I modified a Klein bottle from the Matlab
software package in order to get a finite wall thickness.
(actually I made several in various resolutions the one
I used on this image had an include file of 30 MB, so 
during testing I used some smaller version).

The hot air balloon is there because to measure in the 
heart we used both a balloon electrode as well as a 
basket electrode (see also the spline object on the 
other thesis)

On the table there is a stack oft he 5 theses that precede
this one in this line of research. (the top one is of 
course the one of the first posting, the middle is mine).

The table in modelled after a table we had in our room,
we 'inherited' it from the founder of our lab 
(prof. van der Tweel). So in a sence everything we do
still builds on his work.

The king of hearts is because there is a quote from
alice. The cup of coffee is of course from povray.

Creating this image was done iteratively. The thesis
itself is on the table in the scene although with 
another title (viz. the subtitle of the thesis).

There is also a variant of this image with glasses
of wine in stead of coffee and the title changed to
'integrated electrocardiographic party'. This we used
for the invitations.

That probably covers most of it :)

	Andrel

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